Soviet Moon Landing locations

[Kerbal01]

Does someone know/can someone findout where the soviets were planning to land on the Moon?i'd like to recreate a landing or two

[Agent30632]

As far as I know, there wasn't any planned. Yet

[rryy]

Do you mean the Luna probes?

[Kerbal01]

No, planned LK landing locations(if the Russian moon program had gotten that far)

[lajoswinkler]

Something tells me that was classified and later got dumped into some dusty archive and the rest of the copies destroyed. It's the USSR. They never announced anything. Only if it went well they'd speak about it.

[GDJ]

I did contact the Russian Embassy a while ago when I was playing 0.18.4. I was curious to know what they looked like and whether or not I could reproduce them somewhat in this game.

In short, the information is not available to the public.

So, it's either classified still or destroyed.

[Kryten]

Orrr they hadn't picked a landing site yet. Which is pretty plausible, given they'd have to know the capabilities of the N1 to be able to know what kind of delta-v they'd have left over, and no stage of the N1 was ever successfully test fired.

[GDJ]

^^ That could be true too!

In any regard, I doubt that we are ever going to have a look at any drawings, photo's, or any information on proposed Soviet manned lunar landers.

Heck, the Soviet government wanted all RD-180 engines destroyed after cancelling the N1 project, and what else was left was turned into farm animal shelters, gazebo's, etc.

Only some very brave and forward thinking individuals managed to scarf some 20-odd engines and had them stored in a warehouse.

[Kerbal01]

It was like 90 or so engines, I read in a article about the Antares (which uses 2 upgraded versions of the NK-33/RD-33 engine on the N1 called the AJ-26

[Kryten]

In any regard, I doubt that we are ever going to have a look at any drawings, photo's, or any information on proposed Soviet manned lunar landers.

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There's a full-sized model of one on public display in Disneyland. There are plenty of drawings, plans, photos, and a few actual prototype landers kicking about.

[GDJ]

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There's a full-sized model of one on public display in Disneyland. There are plenty of drawings, plans, photos, and a few actual prototype landers kicking about.

I would have to take your word on the display, since I'm not anywhere close to Disneyland.

[Nibb31]

I doubt they were at a stage where they had picked the landing sites.

Chances are they would have had similar criteria to the americans for choosing their first landing site: equatorial, illuminated, on the near-side, and as flat as possible. If you look at the Moon, there aren't that many candidate sites actually. They would probably have gone for the Sea of Tranquility or the Ocean of Storms like Apollo 11 and 12. Incidentally, Luna 9 and 13 also landed in the Ocean of Storms area.

In any regard, I doubt that we are ever going to have a look at any drawings, photo's, or any information on proposed Soviet manned lunar landers.

That's rubbish. There are plenty of figures, diagrams, and pictures on the web. The Soviet moon program is well documented these days and most of the actual flight articles can be seen up close in museums. Just google "LK Lander".

Edited September 17, 2013 by Nibb31

[GDJ]

That's rubbish. There are plenty of figures, diagrams, and pictures on the web. The Soviet moon program is well documented these days and most of the actual flight articles can be seen up close in museums. Just google "LK Lander".

You need to chill. If I'm wrong about something, I admit it. You don't need to either beat a dead horse or use harsher than necessary language. I personally looked (albeit it was a long time ago) and did try to find out using official channels and didn't find anything.

If there is information now, I didn't know until recently.